Pleading the 5th

[Declan McCullagh]

Okay, Jim, let's test your tortured interpretation of the law.

I'll take one of your posts that's 201 lines long and post it on my
website, properly attributed. You sue me, and we'll watch what
happens. Ready?

-Declan


On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:42:16PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Sunder wrote:
> 
> > forwarders, etc, but he claims that it is not okay for these works
> > to be printed in newspapers, magazines, or on their web sites without
> > his consent.
> 
> Bullshit, I am not.
> 
> I am saying that if you want to print them in such places you can't print
> them outside of the 'fair use' clauses. Under current law that is limited
> to about 200 lines total in any one work.
> 
> If you want to print several of them, or all of them, then you DO need my
> permission.
> 
> As usual, you couldn't get the point right if it was on top of your head.
> 
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